> arguing that Twitter lied about its numbers for years specifically so that someone would buy it at an inflated price? I don’t think that’s the argument. Twit

> arguing that Twitter lied about its numbers for years specifically so that someone would buy it at an inflated price? I don’t think that’s the argument. Twitter is an ad supported business. As such, the incentive is to count the “monthly active users” rather higher than lower. Specifically, there us no incentive to make an effort to exclude automated accounts from that number at all.